18.06.2022 Will ride for food.

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Saturday 18th 61F, solid grey overcast but sunshine is promised for later.  Up at 5.20. 

 Tomorrow's forecast is unsettled with up to 35mm of rain and thunderstorms. We are on the northern edge of the massive heatwave setting new records all over Europe. 

 A gorgeous poppy on a building site.

 The US has 1/3 of its entire population under heatwave warnings to stay indoors. Large rivers and reservoirs can now be crossed on foot. Greenland ice is on runaway meltdown. Global warming? Just your average hoax? What are "they" waiting for?

It surely can't be the tech giants' data centres providing heat. That promise was never fulfilled in climate friendly Denmark. They are relying on unproven un-invented CO2 capture. Which doesn't exist. So the Danish taxpayer has to foot the bill for the cement manufacturers to invent CO2 capture themselves.

 Meanwhile, the Danish politicooze are complaining about young, climate activists holding up placards and spoiling their speech writer's latest monologues in a most undemocratic way. 🙄

 07.30. Hints of the cloud thinning to visible texture. Breakfast over. Time for a walk. 

8.50  It steadily brightened during my walk to the lanes. Traffic light. The first full sunshine wasn't visible until morning coffee was over and even then it was brief. Sky still speckled with cloud. I am going to ride into the village for more food supplies. 

 10.25 Tailwind and 19mph. Headwind coming back at 10-12mph. I finally bought some sunflower cooking oil. Instead of using butter. No new potatoes. Still rather cloudy at times.

 13.10  72F, just finished lunch after a morning in the observatory capturing images of the sun. The air temperature is 72F in the shade. Full sun in a cloudless sky. 81F in the shade in the greenhouse. Still not too bad compared with previous conditions of well over 100F. That was with full, internal, white ceiling tarpaulins and full white curtains on the walls. It is breezy again but straight on from the south. Which probably limits the scavenging effect from a through draught driven from the east or west. 

 16.30 72F, back on the laundry. I was looking for a suitable clothes prop. When a length of timber fell on the back of my hand with a protruding nail. Two ragged punctures/tears half an inch apart. With a vein right between them. Which turned dark purple. 

 Hardly any blood. Well washed then ran cold water on the wound for several minutes. Now under light compression with a Kleenex tissue pad. No pain as yet. No loss of sensation.

 Can I spare 18 hours to queue at Odense A&E? What would I need? Pillow, air bed and sleeping bag, flask, cup, breakfast bowl, porridge, milk, spoons, camping stove, tea bags and coffee, bread, butter, rolls, marmalade. I presume they have shower facilities? Do you think they'd let me to plug in my toaster?  I decided not to bother.

 Dinner was mackerel on toast with half a tin of leftover, tomato soup.

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